Duke’s note: More than just a difference in name, apparently. In a small way, Lily Allen is partially vindicated here. Why? The ubiquitous (and often hidden) minor technicality hidden in the fine print (for which US law is so famous).

by Charley Foster

If you’re old like me you might have, back in the day, mixed tapes of various songs from LPs in your collection and passed them around with your friends. And then later, if you’re like me, when everything was finally digital, you might have mixed songs from your computer hard-drive and saved the mix to a CD and after listening to it in your car for a few weeks, passed it along to one or another of your friends.

Interestingly, there is apparently a legal difference in the two acts. From the Citizen Media Law Project Blog:

“The Copyright Act gives the author of a sound recording (say, a recording artist) exclusive rights to make reproductions, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission….”

See the rest of it at Planet Kauai

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